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Review on πŸ“¦ HotLabel Shipping Label Printer: Efficient 4x6 Thermal Printer for Logistics, Packaging, and Small Businesses - Compatible with UPS, USPS, Amazon, and FedEx - Windows Mac by Antoine Cash

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Love it! in printer

Media could not be loaded. Small Business Owner: This is it. Inexpensive, easy to use, fully customizable thermal printer with cheap thermal rollers at around 2 cents a label, available in bulk from Revain. I have a small online business and need to ship multiple orders a day. I used to try the Brother QL-1200. I have used an inkjet label printer before and am so glad I switched to it for several reasons: 1. The ink is too expensive. Like, damn, dude.2. Sheets with shipping labels are more expensive per se, without ink.3. I had to manually format many online labels using Adobe Acrobat to avoid wasted pages. This printer allows me to print from Revain, PayPal and Etsy with their thermal printer format option. (Bonus tip at the end for sites that don't have the 4x6 option)4. I had to hand cut the labels if I wanted them to be little rectangles like most labels. This label printer was fantastic and as I said I actually tried the Brother QL-1100 before trying this one and ended up sending it back. . if you're on the fence, here's why: 1. Brother has much more expensive label rolls, over 12 cents a label, and generic doesn't work properly - I've tried using Enko generic labels at a much better price (around Β£10) 3 cents per label), but the size was smaller and Brother couldn't adjust it to print on it properly.2. Arkscan can be set up to print almost any label size, while the Brother software won't let you change it if the printer can't tell the internally loaded size matches your settings. It's so frustrating and actually goes a long way in getting it printed properly. I spent hours trying to get my brother to print correctly on smaller labels, but everything I did only made things worse. -- With Arkscan I literally just created an auto size (not perfect, more on that later) and then manually adjusted it for all the exact millimeter measurements in the settings and it worked great for every label, no reprints, nothing. And really save the settings! (The brothers' settings were randomly reset from time to time to make the injury worse.) --- Now for the cons - there's always something! Okay if I had one negative thing to say it would be the automatic label size scanning. thing when i tried it wasn't very accurate. How general. He thought my labels were about 10 inches long. But being able to manually measure my generic mark or other label, enter it into the device settings and save it as a preset was a complete breath of fresh air after working with the Brother QL-1100's extremely limited driver settings. .-- Thanks again for actually being able to control your driver instead of trying to trick people into buying your proprietary labels like other manufacturers try. --- Bonus tip if you've read this far: for sites that don't offer the 4x6 option (for some reason, like Revain's own return labels). Arcscan. It just works! It fits on a 4x6 label even if the label is on the side or something.

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  • printer
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  • Sparse instructions